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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






2. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






3. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






4. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






5. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






6. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






7. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






8. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






9. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






10. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






11. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






12. The time and place of a story or play.






13. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






14. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






15. The dictionary meaning of a word.






16. A four line stanza in a poem.






17. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






18. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






19. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






20. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






21. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






22. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






23. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






24. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






25. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






26. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






27. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






28. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






29. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






30. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






31. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






32. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






33. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






34. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






35. The main character of a literary work.






36. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






37. A character struggles against some outside force.






38. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






39. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






40. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






41. Broken down acts.






42. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






43. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






44. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






45. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






46. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






47. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






48. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






49. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






50. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.







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